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Recovery Funds Awarded--The New York Foundation for the Arts led a fund-raising effort to aid artist and cultural groups in New York City after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Over 350 artists and 135 arts groups will share in the $4.6 million raised.
Visitor Center Planned--A new 24,000 square foot visitor's center and museum is scheduled for construction adjacent to Olana, once home to Hudson River School painter Frederic Church. It will house educational programs, gallery exhibits and storage of art, documents and furniture. Restoration of the house designed and built by Church is also planned.
Famine Memorial Dedicated--The new Irish Hunger Memorial was recently dedicated in Battery Park in Manhattan. Devoted to raising public awareness of the events that led to the Great Irish Famine and Migration of 1845-52, New York sculptor Brian Tolle recreated an Irish potato field on a slab of concrete. Included in the ¬ acre replication of an Irish hillside are potato furrows, stonewalls, indigenous grasses and wildflowers by landscape architect Gail Eileen Wittwer, and a donated ruined fieldstone cottage imported from County Mayo.
Museum Receives Major Gifts--Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art have jointly given 86 works of postwar American paintings, sculptures and prints to the museum. Including works by Johns, Lichtenstein, Newman, Pollock and others, the $200 million gift will be on display Oct. 24 to Jan. 26.
Milestones--Famed designer of kinetic sculpture George Rickey has died at the age of 95. He was one of only two 20C. artists who focused on movement in his works.--Dolores Olmedo, a model for Mexican painter Diego Rivera, has died at age 93. A patron of Rivera and his wife, painter Frida Kahlo, she converted part of her home at the edge of Mexico City into a museum that holds 137 works by Rivera and 35 by Kahlo.--Pop artist Larry Rivers has died at age 78 in Southampton, NY. Rivers was also an actor, sculptor, filmmaker, teacher and cartoonist.
9/11 Memorial Portraits Planned--The Portrait Memorial Foundation was established to secure the production, preservation and permanent display of a work of art consisting of portraits of the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Artist Michael DiMinico, from Tampa, FL, will produce all the 9"x12" portraits in oil on linen. See www.portraitmemorialfoundation.org.
Exhibitions:
OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY -- Angels and Outlaws features a new series of paintings by New Jersey artist Robert Anderson. These new works are an extension of his vibrant style and combine images of the Old West with Hollywood cowboys, pin-ups and characters from pulp fiction covers of the 1940's. Opening Sept. 14 (Reception 3-5pm) through Oct. 19. Preview the show at www.robertandersonart.com.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA -- Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco brings together for the first time 22 major works recently acquired from the artist's personal collection with paintings, sculptures, collages and drawings from private collections throughout the Bay Area. Through Jan. 5.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY -- The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints includes 100 prints by as many artists that provides a new and comprehensive survey of the diverse stylistic and technical experimentation that revolutionized American graphic arts at mid-century and features Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Nell Blaine and Louise Nevelson, among others. Also included are 15 paintings by artists who have or had homes on eastern Long Island, including Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Cy Twombly, and more. Through Oct. 13.
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA -- Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2002 includes the work of 33 sculptors who have been chosen to participate in this annual juried exhibition. The sculptures have been fabricated in varying contemporary media and style. Through Oct. 14.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA -- Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Paintings from American Collections features 34 paintings that represent the stylistic development and thematic variety of Murillo's oeuvre and illustrate an important chapter in the history of taste and collecting in America. Through Oct. 6.
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